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Muscovite from
Silly Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Silly Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:868237
Long-form Identifier:1:3:868237:6
GUID (UUID V4):d0355a4e-7db6-4192-911c-81b3c7c4b947
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
0.0km (0.0 miles) ā“˜Bittner Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) ā“˜Griffin Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
3.1km (1.9 miles) ā“˜Laws Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) ā“˜Georges Fork Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) ā“˜Hampton Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) ā“˜Johnson's Cove Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) ā“˜Jones Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) ā“˜Ray Mica Mine, Hurricane Mountain, Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) ā“˜Higgins Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) ā“˜M. P. Letterman Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...____ Whiteside Granite-_____________________ Muscovite granodiorite of Spruce Pine district-_____ __
Book
MINES MINERS MINERALS AND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Western North Carolinaā€™s Hidden Mineralogical Treasures...E L L 2005 PARKWAY PUBLISHERS, INC. Boone, North Carolina Copyright Ā©1999 Lowell Presnell All Rights...Mines, miners, and minerals of western North Carolina : western North Carolinaā€™s hidden mineralogical treasures...(hard cover) 1. Mines and mineral resourcesā€”North Carolinaā€”History. I. Title. TN24.N8P74 2005 338.4ā€š7622ā€š09756ā€”dc22...Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western North Carolina & the War Years .119 21. The Mineral Kingdom
Report (issue)
Physical Characteristics of Commercial Sheet Muscovite in the Southeastern United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley Authority Physical... Physical Characteristics of Commercial Sheet Muscovite in the Southeastern United States By RICHARD H. JAHNS...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Falley Authority UNITED...6 7 8 11 12 12 15 16 16 17 17 22 24 26 Sheet muscovite in the Southeastern States.____________ Distribution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
substrate for creatin mica. It is the same reason that Silly Putty is fun to play ing and studying nanoparticles...many industrial and technological mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; the term ā€œAā€ mica, and it has stuck...has many uses, including being commercial sheet muscovite in the southeastern United States. U.S. Geological
Report (volume)
......-...-...---------------...-.-.-.--.. North Carolina ______________________________________________................................._........... North Carolina ___..__._....._..._______..__._.____..._.____...........^....................... 116 116 North Carolina .............................................--.......-........-..--.-........--..-. South Carolina -...-.......:..........-.....-----....---.--........ .... ................................ North Carolina ...._.......-._..---...-....-_.._-......_-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
red vanadinite xls and coming from the Red Cloud mine (about 30 miles N . of Yuma), Yuma Co., Ariz., have...the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...of novaculite pebbles (gravel). Of course, both north and south coastal plains and streams thereto, have...were modified by the octahedron. Found in the Lark mine, San Juan Co., Colo." CONNECTICUTā€”We are indebted...wulfenite crystals from the old amethyst locality north of Canton Center (Hartford Co.). Conn. The tiny
Report (issue)
1. Approximate two-day field trip locations of Carolina Geological Society relative to the generalized... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1973 Annual Meeting...PLUTONS OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PIEDMONT OF SOUTH CAROLINA H. D. Wagoner Chiasma Consultants, Inc. 60 Smith...29401 David E. Howell2 Division of Geology South Carolina State Development Board P. O. Box 927 Columbia...reserves of this commodity available in the South Carolina Piedmont, Purposes Reconnaissance mapping of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 Abstract...1b). The collection-site subsets are Siphon Draw, Silly Mountain, Dinosaur Mountain, and Peralta Road (Fig...are glassy with plagioclase microlites and laths. Silly Mountain sample has ~28 vol% subhedral to euhedral...University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill XRF analytical facility, and some at the North Carolina State University...wavelength-spectrometer electron microprobe at North Carolina State University. Operating conditions were
Journal (issue)
Mine Vol. 35 No. 1 January 2019 News The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Albert Edward Foote...Congress representing the Anti-Monopoly Party (Sioux County Herald I 874). Luckily, he was unsuccessful at...NewYork. Silver Ore from the Eagle Mine Red Cliff District, Eagle County, Colorado Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet...location. The specimen came from the well-known Eagle Mine (fig. 2 on page 3) of Empire Zinc Company, a subsidiary...subsidiary of New Jersey Zinc Company. The mine is located at Gilman, Red Cliff District (also known as
Journal (issue)
(Continues on page 2) The Madison Mine, Madison, Carroll County, New Hampshire: An Addendum Art Smith...artsmith@msn.com An article on the Madison mine, Madison, Carroll County, briefly describing the mining history...have made a sketch map showing the location of the mine pit in relation to the dumps, old mill site and... E. Reynolds cottage) and the area of the other mine buildings, now completely obliterated, are taken...Anonymous (1925) has the following about the Madison mine: About 1912 Albert E. Reynolds came. He had diamond
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Middle Pennsylvanian age in southcentral Iowa and north-central Missouri have provided the stratigraphic...(Middle Pennsylvanian) in south-central Iowa and north-central Missouri have provided the stratigraphic...Midcontinent region stretching southwestward to North Texas is [3 typified by varying amounts of limestones...such as in Illinois, Iowa, southern Oklahoma, and North Texas, limestones may be thin and less significant...e~Slon (outbuilding). fiver - fed sed Imenl Local sillyĀ· sand), shale Local sJlfy-sondy stlale Red, green
Journal (issue)
modifiedcrystalsin quartzdrusefrom RoundMountain (Nevada,USA).JurgenTron specimen. (Continues on page 2) The...than usual and available with more dealers. The Gem Mine in San Benito Co. (California) also produced a few...NJ 1.16 Guadalcazar, Mexico 5.00 First Soviet mine, Russia 0 MnO 1.60 I 13.69 I : 1.73 ! ...Ownership: Excalibur Mineral Corporation, 1000 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY 10566-1830. Publisher:...Switzerland UK USA: California Connecticut Maine Montana Nevada New Jersey North Carolina Pennsylvania
Journal (issue)
on page 4) Mineral News ----2 Newry, Oxford County, Maine (Continued from page 1) For example. chemical...mitridatite. montebrasite. montmorillonite, moraesite, muscovite (and damourite and pinite), --opal (hyalite)"...fluorapatite, goethite, magnesiohornblende, microcline, muscovite, quartz, schorl, spodumene Martin Prospect - actinolite...magnesiohornblende, microcline, montebrasite, muscovite (and pinite), quartz, schorl, spodumene, zanazziite...microcline, microlite, montebrasite, montmorillonite, muscovite, pyrite, quartz (and rose quartz crystals), rockbridgeite
Book (volume)
NORTInHIwo AME A Volumes John Sinkankas _ GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes Ā® Volume I Gemstones, of...of all the mineral treasures to be found in North America, are perhaps the most fascinatingā€”and the...worthy of the name. Some, like the emeralds of North Carolina, the colorful and fabulous tourmalines and...above all, easily read and understood, GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA, Volumes I and II, will be welcomed as a...abroad are becoming so scarce and expensive that North America has developed into a major exporter rather
Report (volume)
with low-amplitude flexural-slip folding, Greene County, southwest Pennsylvania, by J. B. Roen Significance...Page Dl 25 29 Paleontology Early Ordovician North Atlantic province conodonts in eastern Pennsylvania...within the Frontier Formation, northwestern Carbon County, Wyo., by E. A. Merewether and W. A. Cobban Elemental...from areas of hydrothermal alteration in South Carolina, by Henry Bell III, R. F. Marvin, and H. H. Mehnert...water Nitrogen content of ground water in Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., by G. E. Kimmel . . . . .
Report (issue)
with low-amplitude flexural-slip folding, Greene County, southwest Pennsylvania, by J. B. Roen Significance...Page Dl 25 29 Paleontology Early Ordovician North Atlantic province conodonts in eastern Pennsylvania...within the Frontier Formation, northwestern Carbon County, Wyo., by E. A. Merewether and W. A. Cobban Elemental...from areas of hydrothermal alteration in South Carolina, by Henry Bell III, R. F. Marvin, and H. H. Mehnert...water Nitrogen content of ground water in Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., by G. E. Kimmel . . . . .
Journal (issue)
of hematite, in part alĀ­ tered to goethite, in muscovite. There are also minor pyrolusite dendrites. This...but directly from a cleavage of muscovite. Mitchell County, North Carolina. R. A. Bideaux colĀ­ lection....species, the locality, and the particular part of the mine or quarry from which the specĀ­ imens came, the date...were unearthed. Miscellaneous by-products at the mine were dumped, and it was in this area of the operation...areas of the operation were visited, and the actual ā€œmineā€ and its operation were observed. Of particular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Reclassification of Granite 63 muscovite, or one of the pairs biotite-muscovite, biotite-hornblende. (Minerals...Thus, finally :ā€” bmIIP9 stands for a biotite-muscovite two-feldspar granite of colour index 9 in which...importance of biotite and muscovite is unknown; b/mll(213)n represents a biotite-muscovite two-feldspar granite...than two-fold, and biotite is more abundant than muscovite. F. Chayesā€” 64 RELATIVE ABUNDANCE OF THE DIFFERENT...Entirely similar granite occurs in large quantity north of Boston, at Peabody and on Cape Ann. The granite
Journal (issue)
...................... 4 Why You Should Have Muscovite Mica in Your Mineral Collection .... 5 Wayne Barnettā€”Part...Trip to the Miocene Fleming Formation of Jasper County, East Texas .....................................BACKBENDERā€™S GAZETTE JULY 2016 Why You Should Have Muscovite Mica in Your Mineral Collection by Michael Sommers...city of Houston and surrounding regions to the north and west were experiencing a large amount of rainfall...call 911!ā€ Hereā€™s where the story returns to muscovite mica. Fires require three things: heat, oxygen
Journal (issue)
iron mines in the U. S., at Sterling Lake, Orange County, New York, are nQw closed, perhaps never to be... 6 ROCKS AND MINERALS The Black Mountain Mica Mine Maine By CHARLES F. MARBLE The so-called mineral...the gem minerals are f ound, extends in a roughly north-west direction, from below Bath, on the coast, to...for mineral specimens, is the Black Mountain Mica Mine in Rumford. There are two Ā·pits about two-thirds...western slope, about a mile from the road between North Ru1nford and Roxbury Notch. The upper pit is about
Journal (issue)
Trlphyllte VesuvianJte Indlcolite Lepldollte Muscovite P e ntlandlte P olluc ite Purpurlte Rubelllte... Examine a black opal from the Li_ghtning Ridge mine in which the warm colors predominate and you may...gazing upon a black opal from the Lightning Ridge mine gave vent to her feelings in unequivocal terms:...Cardano's time (sixteenth century), none of the silly fancies regarding the ominous quality of the opal... ca fo G SOME MINERAL LOCALITIES OF EL PASO COUNTY The mjnerals and localities listed in this article
Catalog/List
directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, ChaƱaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...52006 MIMETITE Var. CAMPYLITE Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria...12:00 PM CTā€ƒā€ƒ 11 52007 FLUORITE Deā€™an Fluorite Mine, Wushan, Deā€™an Co., Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi
Journal (issue)
Chester. e, Mass., or brucice from Woods chrome mine of Texas, Penn., which twenty-five or more years...less and less value and may disappear entirely ; or mine or (Continued on page 131) lALS - ROCKS and...Erie Railroad station at Great Notch, 1n Passaic County. Fifty to sixty feet in depth at the steepest...several small sink holes. Proceding west toward North Mountain I came into the Clinton and Clinch sandstone...I had just visited. Along the ascent and top of North Mountain I stopped occasionally to observe the new
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to the series outcropping in the Shall Window (north of Simla) without being its immediate tectonic continuation...Iominole(:l, dark eoIc~red 91eyg~een slates, parlly silly. thZck bedded 9reenlshwhite quorizites, alternotions...1 : 250,000, sheet NI 34-15, NI 43-16, NI 43-4 (USA i972). The lithologieally uniform areas of the Crystalline...fine-grained and foliated rocks consisting of muscovite q- chlorite + quartz ~: plagioclase ~: accessory...well Ioliated rocks, consisting of: biotite @ muscovite q- chlorite q- quartz :~ garnet :j: plagioclase
Report (issue)
Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product...and on the flank of Sleeping Butte about 12 km north of Oasis Mm.; compositionally rocks are trachybasalt...shield volcano at Thirsty Mountain about 10 km north of Oasis Valley (4.63 Ma; reversed polarity). Common...between 9.8 and 6.3 Ma. Distribution generally north and west of Timber Mountain in areas adjoining Black...nonwelded tuffs erupted from Black Mountain caldera in north-central part of quadrangle between 9.4 and 9.15
 
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